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<h1>The Proteus Project</h1>

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<!WA2><A HREF="http://cs.nyu.edu/"> Department of Computer Science </A>
<dt><!WA3><A HREF="http://www.nyu.edu/"> New York University </A>
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<dt><b>Office:    </b> 715 Broadway, 7th floor, New York, NY 10003 USA
<dt><b>Phone:     </b> (212) 998-3497
<dt><b>Fax No:    </b> (212) 995-4123

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Research Goals
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The Proteus Project is a project of research and development in
natural language processing, conducted in the Department of Computer
Science, New York University, under the direction of 
<!WA4><A HREF="http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/faculty/grishman">Prof. Ralph Grishman</a>.  

<p> The basic research is focussed on the automated acquisition of
linguistic knowledge from large corpora.  We are developing methods for
the acquisition of probabilistic grammars, semantic relations between
words, and selectional patterns.

<p> This research is tied to applications in four areas:
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<dt> <!WA5><IMG SRC="http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/projects/proteus/pic/grn_bul.gif"> information retrieval 
     (the retrieval of documents from large collections)
<dt> <!WA6><IMG SRC="http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/projects/proteus/pic/grn_bul.gif"> information extraction 
     (extracting information about particular types of events from free text)
<dt> <!WA7><IMG SRC="http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/projects/proteus/pic/grn_bul.gif"> machine translation
<dt> <!WA8><IMG SRC="http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/projects/proteus/pic/grn_bul.gif"> language modeling for speech recognition
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Projects
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<dt> <!WA9><IMG SRC="http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/projects/proteus/pic/red_bul.gif"> 
<!WA10><a href="http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/faculty/grishman/comlex.html">Comlex Syntax</a> (creation of a syntactic lexicon of English)

<dt> <!WA11><IMG SRC="http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/projects/proteus/pic/red_bul.gif"> 
<!WA12><a href="http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/faculty/grishman/tipster.html">Tipster architecture</a>
     (a standard architecture for information retrieval and extraction)

<dt> <!WA13><IMG SRC="http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/projects/proteus/pic/red_bul.gif"> 
<!WA14><a href="http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/faculty/grishman/muc6.html">MUC-6</a> (evaluation metrics for natural language systems)

<dt> <!WA15><IMG SRC="http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/projects/proteus/pic/red_bul.gif"> 
<!WA16><a href="http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/projects/proteus/info-extr"> Information Extraction </a> 

<dt> <!WA17><IMG SRC="http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/projects/proteus/pic/red_bul.gif"> 
<!WA18><a href="http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/projects/proteus/csr"> Language Modeling for Speech Recognition </a> 

<dt> <!WA19><IMG SRC="http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/projects/proteus/pic/red_bul.gif"> 
<!WA20><a href="http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/projects/proteus/mt"> Machine Translation </a> 

<dt> <!WA21><IMG SRC="http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/projects/proteus/pic/red_bul.gif"> 
<!WA22><a href="http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/projects/proteus/domain"> Domain Project </a> 

<dt> <!WA23><IMG SRC="http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/projects/proteus/pic/red_bul.gif"> 
<!WA24><a href="http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/projects/proteus/trec"> TREC </a> 
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Members
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<dt> <!WA25><IMG SRC="http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/projects/proteus/pic/blu_bul.gif"> 
<b> <!WA26><A HREF="http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/faculty/grishman"> Ralph Grishman </A> </b>   - Leader, Professor

<dt> <!WA27><IMG SRC="http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/projects/proteus/pic/blu_bul.gif"> 
<b> John Sterling </b> - Assistant Research Scientist

<dt> <!WA28><IMG SRC="http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/projects/proteus/pic/blu_bul.gif"> 
<b> Catherine Macleod </b> - Associate Research Scientist

<dt> <!WA29><IMG SRC="http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/projects/proteus/pic/blu_bul.gif"> 
<b> Adam Meyers </b> - Assistant Research Scientist, PhD in linguistics

<dt> <!WA30><IMG SRC="http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/projects/proteus/pic/blu_bul.gif"> 
<b> <!WA31><A HREF="http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/projects/proteus/sekine"> Satoshi Sekine </A> </b> - Assistant Research Scientist

<dt> <!WA32><IMG SRC="http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/projects/proteus/pic/blu_bul.gif"> 
<b> <!WA33><A HREF="http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/projects/proteus/karlgren"> Jussi Karlgren </A> </b> - Visiting Researcher

<dt> <!WA34><IMG SRC="http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/projects/proteus/pic/blu_bul.gif"> 
<b> <!WA35><A HREF="http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/projects/proteus/troys/resume.html"> Troy Straszheim </A> </b> - Assistant Research Scientist

<dt> <!WA36><IMG SRC="http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/projects/proteus/pic/blu_bul.gif"> 
<b> <!WA37><a href="http://cs.nyu.edu/phd_students/roman/index.html">
Roman Yangarber</a> </b> - PhD student

<dt> <!WA38><IMG SRC="http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/projects/proteus/pic/blu_bul.gif"> 
<b> Andrew Borthwick </b> - PhD student
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<b> Slava Katz </b> works on the project as a consultant.

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Publications, Technical Reports
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There are <!WA39><A HREF="http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/projects/proteus/reports">82 Technical Reports</A> in this project (as of Febrary 7, 1996).
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Acknowledgements
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The project is supported by grants and contracts from the
Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), the National Science
Foundation, and the Linguistic Data Consortium.
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Useful Links
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<li> <!WA40><A HREF="http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~acl/home.html">ACL - The Association for Computational Linguistics Homepage</A>
<li> <!WA41><A HREF="http://info.sigir.acm.org/sigir/">ACM SIGIR (Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval) home page</A>
<li> <!WA42><A HREF="http://www.sics.se/nlp/nodali.html">Nordic Computational Linguistics</A>
<li><!WA43><A HREF="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~ldc/"> Linguistic Data Consortium </A>
<li><!WA44><A HREF="http://ophelia.lcl.cmu.edu/manning/statnlp.html"> Resources on Statistical NLP/corpus-based computational linguistics </A>
<li><!WA45><A HREF="http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/info/FTPServer.html"> CL-related Gopher/WWW servers </A>
<li><!WA46><A HREF="http://xxx.lanl.gov/cmp-lg/"> The Computation and Language E-Print Archive </A>
<li><!WA47><A HREF="http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/paul/ucrel/reference.html"> UCREL References and Publications </A>
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